From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 3 06:53:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA14974 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:53:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA14959 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from scott@it030.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.94.30]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with ESMTP; id OAA23349; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:52:17 GMT Received: (from scott@localhost) by it030.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA00593; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:52:15 GMT Message-ID: <19981203145214.A367@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:52:14 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Pat Lynch , Patrick Gardella Cc: Jean-Marc Beaudoin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About X-Windows client References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Pat Lynch on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0500, Pat Lynch wrote: > HUmmingbird and the like used to do it with rsh/rlogin. -P > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote: > > > I've not seen a script such as that. I would think that if Microimages knew of > > one, they would ship it with MI/X. But others may know how to do it. I try to > > avoid the windows world as much as possible. :) > > > > Patrick > > I've used xrsh and xrlogin to do this for years now. Of course, they won't work on Winblows unless you happen to have sh, rsh and numerous other things there as well. If you can find a windows rsh client that will let you pass environment variables across, it ought to be possible. xrsh/xrlogin can be found at (amongst other places): ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xrsh-5.8.shar.gz HTH, Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message